Ice-cream-cone container



June 8 1926.

J. E MURRAY ICE CREAM-CONE CONTAINER Filed Feb. 11. 1925 l mented June 8, 1926.

assign JAMES E. MURRAY, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Application filed February The invention has relation to containers in general and in particular to containers, carriers, and the like designed primarily for the reception of ice cream cones, candy, pastry, or other edible substances.

The object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved container for the purposes aforesaid which shall protect the con tents from contamination and from coming into contact with surrounding objects which might be injured thereby, and which shall be simple and inexpensive to manufacture.

lhe invention consists in a container for ice cream cones and the like comprising a cone-shaped body-portion, and a flap combined with said body-portion having a stiffened flap-extremity, said body-portion having a keeper to receive the stiffened portion and maintain the flap in its closed position. In the preferred form of the invention, the material of the free end of the flap is gathered to cause the flap to bulge transversely to conform to the shape of the contents of the cone.

Illustrative embodiments of the invention are shown in the accompanying drawings, in whieh,--

1 is a front elevation of a container comprising one of the said embodiments, with the flap open, showing a filled ice cream cone within.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the said container on a larger scale, with the flap closed and secured, an ice cream cone being indicated within the container.

Fig. 3 is a view in cross section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

1 shows the outlines of the two pieces of material that are used in making the container illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. shows the. outline of the material for a one-piece container.

Having reference to the drawings,

The container may be made of any suitable material which meets the requirements incident to its use, as for instance waxed or parafiined paper.

In the preferred form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the blank for the base-portion l is cut from heavy waxed paper in the form shown in Fig. l, while the blank forming the flap 9 is a simple rectangle of lighter waxed paper. One of the shorter sides, namely that marked 11, of the rectangular blank is lapped over the top edge or the 11, 1925. Serial NO. 8,454.

blank for the base-portion, and caused to adhere thereto, either by means of the paraflin coating the cont 'ous surfaces, or of a suitable cement. The sides of the blank for the ba se-portion 1 are then folded inward on dotted lines a and 5, Fig. and margin 2 is lapped over margin 5 so that the acute angles at 6. and 7 coincide, the overlapping margins being secured together by means of the paraffin or of cement. The bottom end of the body is then turned up upon itself and secured as shown at 8 in l i 'sv 1 and 22, forming a water-tight receptacle which when distended by the contents assumes a roughlyconical shape.

The free end 12 of the flap is gathered inwardly from both margins thereof towi-ird the longitudinal center line of the rectangle from which it is made, whereby it is brought into more or less of a pointed shape, and it is secured in this gathered arrangement by causing the resulting folds and laps to ad here at the tip of the flap, either by the use of cement or through the agency of the paraiiin. Or a binding of heavy paper may be applied to the tip as indicated at 13 in Fig. 1 This pointed free end of the lap i) is thereby stitfened and adapted to be inserted in a keeper of some sort on the front of the base-portion 1, to hold the flap 9 down in place over the contents of the container. The gathering, and the securing of the gathers, incident to forming the free end into a point will develop suflicient stiitness in this pointed portion to enable it to be easily inserted in a keeper, which stillness will be further enhanced by the addition of the binding 13 aforesaid. But it preferred to apply a tab ll of material having the requisite stiffness, to the outside face of the p inted part of the flap 9, to add greater facility in the manipulation of the container in securing the flap, and also to afford a surface for the display of printed advertising matter. This latter use is shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The keeper into which is inserted the pointed end of flap 9, or in the preferred arrangement the lower part of the tab 14, may be a simple transverse slit. in the front of the body-portion 1, but for the sake of the advantages aforesaid in connection with the applied tab 1-1 is preferably a pocket 15 of stiif material caused to adhere along its lateral edges to the front surface of the body-portion 1, and into which is thrust and its contents 21, adapting my con-' tainer more satisfactorily to use with ice cream cones than prior devices for this purpose. The dome-shape conforms more closely to the shape of the mass of iceeream 21 projecting from the top of the cone, id also results in closer approach of the margins 16 and 17 of the flap, (Fig. 2,) at opposite sides of the containengiving better protection to the contents. It is advantageous to make the flap, as shown, of a width in its main portion somewhat greater than the width of the cone, in the folded state of the latter, in order to provide the flap with marginal portions which will 'cX- tend laterally around the mass of ice-cream 21 and enclose or substantially enclose the said mass at the sides of the latter, as indicated in Fig. 2.

What I claim as my invention is z- 1. A container for ice cream cones, comprising a cone-shaped body-portion,- and a flap combines with said body-portion having the material of its free end gathered to cause the flap to bulge transversely and having also a stiffened extremity, said bodyportion having a keeper to receive the said stifi'ened extremity for the purpose of maintaining the flap in its closed position.

2. A container for icecream cones, comprising a cone-shaped body-portion, and a tapering flap which is of a width in its main portion somewhat greater than the width of the cone, in the folded state of the latter, as and for the purposes described, one of said elements provided with a keeper under which the tip of the other element may be inserted.

3. A container for ice cream cones, comprising a cone-shaped body-portion, and a flap combined with said body-portion having an additionally stiilened tip, said bodyportion having a keeper to receive the said tip for the purpose oi maintaining the flap in its closed position.

i. A container for ice cream cones, comprising a cone-shaped body-portion, and a flap combined therewith having the material at its -free end gathered to cause said flap to assume a dome-shape when closed over the month of the coi'itainer, the said gat-h cred portion having a stili' tip-piece comined therewith, and the body-portion having a keeper receiving the said tip-piece to hold the flap in closed relation.

5. A container for ice cream cones, comprising a cone-shaped body-portion of heavy paper, and a flap of lighter and more flexible paper combined with the said bodyportion adapted to bend over the top of the said body-portion and its contents and extend down in front of the said body-portion.

JAMES E. MURRAY. 

